Title Women who dared : 52 stories of fearless daredevils, adventurers, & rebels / Linda Skeers ; illustrated by Livi Gosling.

Publication Info.	Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks, Inc., [2017]
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Description	112 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 108-111) and index.
Summary	Profiles fifty-two women in history who who have risked their lives for the sake of adventure, including Sophie Blanchard, Mary Anning, Minnie Spotted Wolf, and Alia Muhammad Baker.
Contents	Daredevils. Anna Olga Albertina Brown -- Annie Edson Taylor -- Bessie Coleman -- Elinor Smith -- Florence Chadwick -- Georgia "Tiny" Broadwick -- Helen Gibson -- Lillian Boyer -- Lillian Leitzel -- Mary Lillian Ellison -- May Emmeline Wirth -- Mildred Burke -- Shirley Muldowney -- Sophie Blanchard -- Valentina Tereshkova -- Adventurers. Ada Blackjack -- Barbara Hillary -- Beatrice Ayettey -- Emma "Grandma" Gatewood -- Dr. Eugenie Clark -- Fanny Bullock Workman -- Ferminia Sarras -- Ida Lewis -- Jeanne Baret -- Joan Bamford Fletcher -- Junko Tabei -- Libby Riddles -- Lillian Riggs -- Margaret Bourke-White -- Mary Anning -- Mina Hubbard -- Rosaly Lopes -- Sylvia Earle -- Ynes Mexia -- Rebels. Alia Muhammad Baker -- Annette Kellerman -- Annie "Londonderry" Cohen Kopchovsky -- Belle Boyd -- Bessie Stringfield -- Ella Hattan -- Irena Sendler -- Johanna July -- Kate Warne -- Keiko Fukuda -- Lyda Conley -- Margaret "Molly" Tobin Brown -- Mary Edwards Walker -- Mary Fields -- Minnie Spotted Wolf -- Rose Fortune -- Susan la Flesche Picotte -- Sybil Ludington.
Subject	Women daredevils -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Women adventurers -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Adventure and adventurers -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Women heroes -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Dissenters -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Adventure and adventurers. (OCoLC)fst00797447
	Dissenters. (OCoLC)fst00895401
	Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
	Women adventurers. (OCoLC)fst01177044
	Women daredevils. (OCoLC)fst01742900
	Women heroes. (OCoLC)fst01177736
	Women daredevils -- Biography.
	Women adventurers -- Biography.
	Adventure and adventurers -- Biography.
	Women heroes -- Biography.
	Dissenters -- Biography.
	Women -- Biography.
	Adventure and adventurers.
	Women daredevils.
	Women adventurers.
	Women.
	Dissenters.
	Women heroes.
	JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Historical.
	JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Women.
	JUVENILE NONFICTION / History.
Genre/Form	Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
	Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
	Action and adventure fiction.
Added Author	Gosling, Livi, illustrator.
Added Title	Fifty-two stories of fearless daredevils, adventurers, and rebels : women who dared
ISBN	9781492653271 (hardcover : alk. paper)
	1492653276 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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